Sergey Yesenin was born in Konstantinovo in the Ryazan Province of the Russian Empire to a peasant family. uk. co. dogstailbooks.
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Yesenin said that Bely gave him the meaning of form while Blok and Klyuev taught him lyricism.
Blok was especially helpful in promoting Yesenin\'s early career as a poet.
In 1915, he moved to Petrograd, where he became acquainted with fellow-poets Alexander Blok, Sergey Gorodetsky, Nikolai Klyuev and Andrei Bely and became well known in literary circles.
His early poetry was inspired by Russian folklore.
The following year he enrolled in Moscow Shanyavsky University as an external student and studied there for a year and a half.
In 1912, Yesenin moved to Moscow, where he supported himself working as a proofreader in a printing company.
He began to write poetry at the age of nine.
He spent most of his childhood with his grandparents, who essentially reared him.
Sergey Yesenin was born in Konstantinovo in the Ryazan Province of the Russian Empire to a peasant family